Cyrano de Bergerac, flying by means of bottles of dew evaporated by sunlight, thus lifting him. From Oeuvres de Cyrano de Bergerac, Paris 1850. Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (1619 – 1655) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian and duellist. A bold and innovative author, his work was part of the libertine literature of the first half of the seventeenth century.

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